To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
